Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young is member of the Big Four accountancy firms, offering assurance, advisory assurance, tax assurance and transaction advisory services. It was ranked the 9th largest private in the United States in 2010 by Forbes magazine.

After the Enron scandal in 2001, Ernst & Young merged with many of the companies around that world that dissolved as a result of the scandal. Following the scandal, Ernst & Young also fought alongside other members of the Big Four against greater regulation. Since 2006, it has also acquired the largest minority-owned accounting firm in the United States, as well as an enterprise intelligence firm. Ernst & Young was charged in 2010 in association with fraudulent practices by Lehman Brothers that led to the group's collapse. -- Kathleen Ronayne

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Campaign finance totals for the current election cycle were released by the FEC on November 13, 2018 and by the IRS on June 06, 2017, lobbying data was released by the Senate Office of Public Records on October 24, 2018, outside spending data was released by the FEC on November 19, 2018, and personal finances data was released by the House, Senate, and US Office of Government Ethics starting in June 2011.

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